Google Hacking and Web Application Worms

1. Google Hacking and Web Application Worms OWASP 2005 Matt Fisher, Sr. Engineer SPI Dynamics

2. Happy Anniversary ! • Search Engine Hacking Almost Ten Years Old • First solid documentation: SimpleNomad, 1996, AltaVista textfiles.com Web Hacking: Pick a site, find the vulnerability Google Hacking : Pick a vulnerability, find the site. Don’t Be A Target of Opportunity

3. Just the beginning … • Non-Public Systems • Intranets, access-restricted extranets, web services • Not all internet systems crawled • Have to request a crawl • Extranets, customer portals • Google: very limited crawl • Robots.txt, forms, javascript • Linked content only ! • Exposure has to be hard-linked • No tampering

4. The Perfect Drug Warning !Search engine hacking can be highly addictive Focus on what to look for, not on the search engine. A Few of my Favorite Things Source code galore: Need a code sample ? Grab a code sample ! File traversals : full system read access Command Execution : Executing shell commands through a browser, basically port 80 telnet. File Uploads: Don’t like the content ? Make your own !

5. Basic Google Hacking - Using File Types

6. Works for many other file types

7. Curioser and Curioser

8. Googling for a Recent Exploit – Using Constraints Cross – Site Framing website.com/showframe.asp?src=fakesite.com/fakelogin.html Site frames content Content can be external Frame source specified on client side

9. INURL Restricts search terms to URL itself (buggy) Want the source to be external; not on the same site Further qualifier Want the source to be specified in the client

10. Client-Sided Frame Source

11. Framed.

12. Directory Traversals !

13. SPAM ENGINES

14. Source Code Database queries. They’re source code. Hooray Source Code !

15. The Fun Never Stops If you can read source code, what do source code do you read ? Depends on what you’re interested in ! How about some database connection strings !

16. The Proverbial Post-It On the Monitor Yes, those are real live database connection stringsYes, they contain real live usernames and passwords No, Special Agent, I didn’t try them out.

17. Web App Hacking’s Cool. Google Hacking’s Cool. Everyone Thought We Were Crazy ….

18. Then Santy Climbed Down the Chimney December 20th 2004 Used a WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITY in a common freeware PHP application Used GOOGLE to ID new targets Multiple improved variants already out

19. Code Review of the Vuln App URLDecode the input before removing special characters

20. MagicQuotes in PHP • Escapes single quotes • Turns ‘ into \’ • Functional : prevents O’Malley and O’Brian from O’Crashing your query. • MagicQuotes are magically functional, but not a security feature, and were never meant to be

21. Rasmus Lerdof says … “You always have to escape quotes before you can insert a string into a database. If you don't, you get an ugly SQL error and your application doesn't work. After explaining this simple fact to people for the 50th time one day I finally got fed up and had PHP do the escaping on the fly. This way the applications would work and the worst that would happen is that someone would see an extra \ on the screen when they output the data directly instead of sticking it into the database.” Source: SitePoint.com, Interview - PHP's Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, http://www.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/3

22. Attack of the Worms: How it works URLEncoded characters PHP Fwrite command PHP Fopen command

23. Decoding the attack MagicQuotes recognizes plain and encoded single quotes Decode once and compare %27%2E is not a single quote

24. Back to the Code Application decoded again in the code Turned the remaining %27%2E into ‘. Making the injection work.

25. Basic Google Viewtopic.php with random numbers as a parameter ( 1414414=5858583) Numbers NOT evasion – ensure different websites in each result Unimaginative and easily signatured ….

26. Google shutdown the query … And gave me spyware advice …?

27. Google Evasion Viewtopic by itself could be anything. Add phpBB’s footer and it’s more accurate Viewtopic.php is not the same as viewtopic and php Hmm …. Does Google recognize Blank Spaces ? Bonus :Spot the Google bug.

28. Or Just “Switch” There’s more than one engine to search the web 4 Variants in JUST DAYS.

29. Prologue • New Version of phpBoard released • Remedial Action suggested to immediate users of the software was to remove the “URLDECODE” • Prevents the second decode: ‘ remains as %27 • Still not rock solid input validation

30. Why Web Application Risks Occur The Web Application Security Gap Application Developers and QA Professionals Don’t Know Security Security Professionals Don’t Know The Applications • “As a Network Security Professional, I don’t know how my company’s web applications are supposed to work so I deploy a protective solution…but don’t know if it’s protecting what it’s supposed to.” • “As an Application Developer, I can build great features and functions while meeting deadlines, but I don’t know how to build security into my web applications.”

31. The Old Paradigm Development builds Application Functional defects are found and fixed QA performs functional testing App is declared ready for UAT Security applies any missing patches or tweaks configuration Customer performs acceptance testing Security tests server patches and configuration Deployment begins Program goes live

32. Security Cannot Fix Application Issues Development builds Application QA performs functional testing App is declared ready for UAT Application either goes back to square one, or goes live with known vulnerabilities Customer performs acceptance testing Security discovers application vulnerabilities Deployment begins Program goes live

33. Security Testing To The Application Lifecycle Development Audit Auditors, Dev, Compliance, and Business Subject Matter Experts (SME) Developers Production QA Security Operations and Auditors QA and Developers

34. My Contact Info Matt Fisher mfisher@spidynamics.com 240.463.9030